Ulrike Griessmayr zipprich@debitel.net Souvenir, 2000 Little ships, made of paper in the manner of children ( 500 pieces ). Every visitor can take one home. When you unfold it, you can read the text. On one side is Walt Whitman´s hymn "Mannahatta," which influenced the Europeans´ view of America in a romantic manner, on the other side are excerpts from the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, telling of yesterday´s world. Ships are transporters of hope. Leaving behind everything they loved and persecuted by a regime of hate, immigrants have crossed the ocean. My fragile paper-vessels symbolize the departure to a new world, including freedom as well as irretrievably lost identity. Puschkinstr. 23 D-06108 Halle/Saale, Germany Born 1973 Ichenhausen, Germany. Education 1992-1995 Studies in german literature and philosophy at the Ludwigs Maximilians University, Munich, Austria. Since1996 Studies in panting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts Burg Giebichenstein, Halle, Germany. Winter 1999/2000 Exchange student at the Academy of Fine Arts, Viennna, Austria.